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NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around moon

Moon colonies, helium-3 and future science: NASA's long-term goals after the Artemis II mission

NASA is preparing for Artemis II, which will send four astronauts around the Moon. The mission will test Orion’s life-support, navigation, and communication systems in preparation for future lunar landings.

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Artemis II Astronauts Embark on Historic NASA Mission as the Full Moon Glows, in Photos

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The morning after: NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around the moon

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The Morning After: NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around the Moon

NASA’s Artemis II successfully launched on April 1, with its crew on a 10-day mission to circle the Moon.

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'Feeling pretty good up here': Artemis II makes critical push out of Earth's orbit towards Moon

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NASA gives go ahead to send Artemis II toward moon

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Artemis II Astronauts Fly Away From Earth Toward the Moon

At 7:49 p.m. Eastern time, the Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds, accelerating with 6,000 pounds of thrust and committing the crew of four astronauts — three Ameri...

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Moon mission astronauts ‘doing great’ and spacecraft performing well, Nasa chief says

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Artemis II Astronauts Bound For Moon After Rocketing Away On NASA's First Lunar Voyage In Decades

Artemis II astronauts are way higher than International Space Station

The Artemis II mission is a 10-day test flight around the moon in the Orion crew capsule. As of April 2, the astronauts were orbiting Earth at a height 184 times higher than the International Space Station. The crew is expected to travel farther from Earth than any humans ever have, surpassing the Apollo 13 record.

NASA’s 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space

Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and 2, a pair of spacecraft first launched in 1977 and tasked with taking a trip through our solar system.

Scientific American

How NASA’s moon mission could help transform space medicine

Artemis II’s AVATAR experiment will see organs-on-a-chip travel to the moon and back, revealing how such a journey affects the body’s cells

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Science center prepares for a month full of events after Artemis II launch

Hours before the Artemis II launch, the Great Lakes Science Center was filled with people eager to learn about space exploration.

‘Very excited’: OMSI space education director reacts to Artemis II moon launch

NASA’s Artemis II successfully blasted off Wednesday afternoon — capturing the attention of space enthusiasts in Portland.

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Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

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Science finds a place on Artemis 2

While the Artemis 2 mission is primarily a test flight, the four astronauts on board will conduct some science during the nearly 10-day mission.

Astronomy

The first commercial space telescope just achieved first light

The world’s first commercial space science telescope, Mauve, just sent back data from low-Earth orbit, achieving “first light” — and signaling a potential new era for low-cost observation. Launched Nov. 28, 2025, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 ...

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Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ magnetic fields.

Science Friday

Down To Earth: Space Science For Community Change

Calling all budding environmentalists, space enthusiasts, and Earth-bound innovators! Science Friday is excited to offer our Down To Earth program—a free educational experience designed to ignite a curiosity for science that’ll burn brighter than a ...

When ‘Star Trek’ put the first Black astronaut into space

Halfway through Space Is the Place, Sun Ra muses that scientists are fed on research while Black people have been fed on freedom. As a Black physicist, I have been fed on both, and I have tried to grow the seeds that my ancestors passed on to me.

Artemis II lifts off Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II has finally taken off into space. It’s the first crewed lunar voyage in more than 50 years. The four astronauts onboard for the 10 day mission will not land on the moon but may witness views of the lunar landscapes that have never been seen by human eyes.